ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,670,296, issued on June 30, was assigned to Hewlett-Packard Development Co. LP (Spring, Texas).
"Generating a request for reprocessing of a replaceable supply component" was invented by Kyle Michel (Vancouver, Wash.), Laurent Pizot (Vancouver, Wash.), Jefferson P. Ward (Vancouver, Wash.), Steven T. Castle (Corvallis, Ore.), Talal Sadak (Vancouver, Wash.), Scott A. Putz (Boise, Idaho), Gabriel Scott McDaniel (Boise, Idaho) and Paul L. Jeran (Boise, Idaho).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Generating a request for reprocessing of a replaceable supply component may include sending to a non-volatile memory of a replaceable supply component, a re...